Explaining traditions [electronic resource] : folk behavior in modern culture / Simon J. Bronner.
Material type: TextSeries: UPCC book collections on Project MUSEPublication details: Lexington : University Press of Kentucky, c2011. 2015)Description: 1 online resource (xiii, 530 p. :) illContent type:- text
- computer
- online resource
- 9780813134079
- 398.20973 23
- GR105 .B666 2011
Includes bibliographical references (p. 459-508) and index.
Defining tradition: on the meaning and politics of a "handy" concept -- Explaining tradition: on folk and folkloristic logic -- Building tradition: on control and authority in vernacular architecture -- Making tradition: on craft in American consciousness -- Adapting tradition: on folklore in human development -- Fading tradition: on a dying language and lore -- Personalizing tradition: on storytelling by an African American father and son -- Symbolizing tradition: on the scatology of an ethnic identity -- Sporting tradition: on the praxis of American football -- Virtual tradition: on the Internet as a folk system.
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